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A49604	A funeral oration or sermon upon the most high, most potent Lord, Francis Henry De Montmorancy ... prounc'd at Paris, in the church of the Profess'd House of the Company of Jesus, the 21 st. of April, 1695, by Father De la Rue, of the same society ; from the french original.; Oraison funèbre de très-haut et très-puissant Seigneur François Henry de Montmorency, duc de Luxembourg et de Piney. English	La Rue, Charles de, 1643-1725.	1695 (1695)	Wing L455; ESTC R6889	22,402	33

Torrent cry out being strook with Terror at the Approach of Judas Maccabeus If he comes over to us we are undone we cannot withstand him Our General on the other side inspir'd with a just Confidence in view of the Enemy cries out If he comes over to us he 's Ruin'd he cannot escape us What a Grandeur of Soul is requir'd to take such Resolutions What a Superiority of Courage Thus hast thou ordain'd it Lord of Hosts Few Enemies more Potent then those whom thou hast rais'd up against us But what General ever render'd himself more formidable to such a Potent Adversary If that famous Maccabean out of a Pious Tenderness equal to the Resolution of his Heart thought it an incumbent Duty to offer Sacrifices to God for the Souls of his Soldiers that fell in Battel by the Swords of their Enemies 't is the least Duty we can pay our General to offer up the Sacrifice of our Tears and the immortal Victim of our Altars to a Warriour always Victorious and who has render'd us formidable to our most terrible Enemies Terrible Kings shall fear me A second Advantage altogether particular to Him is this That he had under his Command the greatest Bodies of Armies that ever France brought into the Field which was an Effect of the Conjuncture of the Times With what easiness did he give all the Motion requisite for the Success of Great Designs to those vast Bodies comps'd of so many different Parts I say Easiness my Lords I could have said Prudence and Wisdom had I been to paint forth one of those profound Souls whose Conduct is the Fruit of a painful and laborious Application and who suffer the Importance of their Projects to be read in their Countenances But to have his Designs always settl'd in good Order to foresee those of the Enemy with a Penetration almost certain to find in himself the Remedies always ready at Hand upon any suddain Counter-Events and to cover all this with a sedateness with an equal Temper and to make it his continual Sport as I may so say These are Excellencies which make us call to mind that eternal Wisdom of which Solomon thought he gave no mean Idea when to express the exaltation of her Conduct and at the same time how easily she executes all her great Designs he tells us That she makes the Government of the World her sport Would it be an Injury to the Wisdom of Men to set forth by the same Expression the sedate and easie Activity of a Mind superiour to whatever it undertakes Such was this great General in the Conduct of his Armies There was no need of gaudy Pomp or Haughtiness to procure Respect and Reverence to his Person There was no Necessity for him to make use of Rigour or Severity for the maintaining of good Discipline nor to employ Force or Authority to engage his Soldiers to undertake the most difficult Enterprizes All the Qualities requisite for Command were enclos'd in an Air of Noble and Military Popularity which was natural to him By that means my Lords he was so well enter'd into their Hearts that with an obliging and familiar Word he infus'd in a moment into theirs the Courage and Confidence that abounded in his own Heart So soon as he shew'd himself the Dangers of Assault the Difficulties of Battel the Pains and Trouble of hasty Marches all vanish'd They knew that whatever the Labour was or where ever they march'd he led 'em to Honour and they were never deceiv'd Can that March be forgot prodigious for an Army of above Thirty Leagues in Three Days which so absolutely disappointed all the Enemies Prudence and crown'd all the Actions of the Duke of Luxembourgh The Confederates had spent the Campaign in vainly blocking up our Quarters at Vignamont in hopes to force us either to re-pass the Meuse or else to expose our Flank to their Batteries while we march'd back to Namur Constrain'd themselves to give way to the Victorious Constancy of Monsieur who by his Presence added new weight to the Authority of the General and new Fires to the Armies Zeal they sought to repair the Shame of their Retreat by some Signal Act toward the Sea-Coasts They promis'd themselves at least to surprize at their Pleasure the Strongest of our Towns Great Preparations a Threatning Fleet ready to favour their Design the way open without any Obstacle in the midst of their Country Camps ready mark'd out to fly about from the Parts adjoyning to the Meuse to the Banks of the Lis and Scheld 'T was for us to fly after them and what must we do to get before ' em Nothing but observe Your Countenance and follow Your Steps GREAT PRINCE the Happy Son of a Victorious KING for ever Famous still more by the Rapidity of his Conquests then by their Number or their Grandeur But what a Consolation was it to You in the height of Your Zeal to imitate the Rapidness of that Monarch unimitable to any other but your self what a joy was it to You to find a General at Hand so expert and quick to second Your Designs Upon the First Orders given for the March such a Fervency seiz'd the whole Army that they never scrupl'd any longer either the Length of the Leagues the Number of Days nor the Difficult Passages o're the Rivers Every one found in his Courage and the Hopes of coming to a Battel wherewith to harden himself against the Cries of Drowth and Hunger We admire those brave Israelites who prest by Thirst in their March against Midian under the Leading of Gideon durst not stop a Minute to draw Water but still marching forward contented themselves with sucking in the Water which they took up in the Hallow of their Hands We see an Army altogether forgetful of their Repose and their Necessity and Refusing the Succour and Refreshments which the Zeal of the People and the Foresight of the Officers had got ready upon the High Ways They were running said they to Victory and wanted nothing but the Enemy They found him at length but Surpriz'd and Consternated at their Diligence and confounded to see the Banks of the Scheld all crouded with Squadrons Monsieur at their Head and Luxemburg next Him They had not the Pleasure of a Battel but they had the Satisfaction to vanquish and by their appearance to stifle and disappoint the Boldness and all the Designs of the Enemy If after so many Demonstrations of Consummate Ability and Gallantry we refuse this General the Applauses that are due to Him shall we not have our Enemies themselves upbraiding us in his behalf But he has no need of our Elogies he has more need of our Prayers Let us leave the Care of applauding him to Foreign Nations As for Us who have felt the Effects of his Happy Conduct let us take care to discharge that Duty which he expects from us Let us cry to God Lord this is he who went in and out before us when

we fought for thy Cause Save Him who sav'd all Israel But whence the Source my Lords of those two Wonders his Superiority over our Enemies and his Easiness in governing our Armies It was at the Bottom of his Heart from that Resolution from that Undauntedness which produc'd that high Reputation so formidable to the One and so obliging to the Other in bello Fortis It would be a dishonour to him to say that Fear never appear'd in his Countenance But let us say that Trouble and Disorder never shew'd themselves there He never beheld Danger but with Contempt He beheld at Lleurus the danger of Forcing the Passage of the Sambre in view of the Enemy and of going to shut up himself to fight 'em between the River and Them He forc'd the Passage fought 'em and vanquish'd At Leuse he saw the Danger of meeting with Eighteen Battalions all the Enemies Cavalry consisting of Seventy two Squadrons But he fac'd and defeated ' em But that we may the better understand him it behoves us to look into the two last Battels of which the One was the Reflexion and as it were the Image of the Other At Nerwinde he repay'd the Blow which they endeavour'd in vain to have given him at Steenkirk They would have surpriz'd him he was resolv'd to surprize in his turn But with what Success however with what Efforts Assail'd at Steenkirk in the midst of a Camp without defence he kept his Ground there as if he had been in a fortify'd Place without any other Advantage over the Enemy then the Resolution of his Heart the Confidence of his Men and the Valour of those Princes who then secur'd his Victory by their Example and honour'd it with their Blood At Nerwinde he was the Aggressor but he assail'd a Camp defended by Art and Nature surrounded with Batteries and secur'd by Entrenchments Call to mind my Lords the Butchery of that Day wherein the Resistance of the Enemy almost Equal to our Valour made appear in all its Lustre that invincible Obstinacy which fix'd our General to the pursuit of his Designs and promis'd him the Success when every thing seem'd Desperate There it was if ever that he stood in need of it For let us talk no more of those easie Victories those General Routs that in a Day change the Fortune of Kingdoms Tho' we had not for our Enemies the Bravest People in the World yet they have been exercising themselves so long time against Us that 't would be a wonder if they should not have learnt by this to make a stout Defence It ought to be for our Honour that They who surmount us blush not at their Defeat and that all Europe gives this Testimony of our Nation that they know how to triumph over Valour it self We saw the Proofs of it then in our Army seconded by the Choice of three warlike Nations faithful Subjects to a King who deserves to reign over no other then such Subjects We saw our Army attacking so many Nations in Confederacy against us in the midst of their Lines and Entrenchments with as much Courage as if it had been in the Plain Field a Battel chang'd into a Siege Officers and Soldiers not in the least discourag'd returning four or five times to the Assault the Small and Great Shot rendred ineffectual by the downright Hacking and Hewing of the Sword the General Present every where giving Orders and putting 'em in Execution himself in the midst of the Medley as if it had been in the midst of his Friends the Enemies forc'd on every side happy in their Flight that two Rivers hindred the Victors Pursuit Then we saw the Truth of those Expressions that are lookt upon as fabulous The Field cover'd with Heaps of the Slain Rivers chang'd into Blood and Stopp'd in their Course We saw renew'd in those famous Fields the Descriptions which the Prophet Ezekiel makes of those Bloody Defeats of the Enemies of God There says he The Princes of the North trembling and asham'd of their Might and confounded in their Strength There the Prince surrounded with the Sepulchers of his Souldiers in the Place it self where he expected to triumph All run through adds he in the same Place all run through and slain by the Sword Lord one Battel more one Year more Lord might have compleated the Work and recall'd that Peace which has been so long Banish'd And why may we not say while we are sighing o're his Tomb what the Prophet Elisha said to that Warlike Prince who had withstood all the Efforts of Syria Smite the Earth said he to the King He smote it with his Javelin but stopping too soon Oh! cry'd the Prophet full of Sorrow Hadst thou smitten five times thou hadst smitten Syria till thou hadst consumed it That Generous Arm now Dust and Ashes struck the Earth four times The Blows of his Four Battels were heard into all the Parts of Europe One Victory more Lord a Fifth Victory had compleated our Conquest restor'd Peace to the World and rear'd up thy Religion upon the Ruins of its Enemies Si percussisses quinquies Thou hast refus'd to hear our Prayers and our Tears perhaps by reason of our Sins perhaps by reason of the Sins of this Great Warriour who fighting at the same time for his Prince and his God study'd less to please his God then he apply'd himself to please his Prince and minded more the Frail Laurels of a Victorious General then the Crowns of Eternity But seeing that God has depriv'd him the Honour of putting an end to the War and reserv'd it for the Valour of another Arm in that my Lords we must acknowledge the Goodness of God toward him for having shorten'd his Victories that he might call him off to the Care of his Conscience and give him Time to provide for his Salvation But how much the greater Obligation therefore upon Us to redouble the Fervency of our Prayers for a Christian perhaps no otherwise a Transgressor then for having had a greater care of our Temporal Advantages then for the Interests of his Soul and whom perhaps the Praises which were daily given to his Valour might have caus'd him to forget the Duties of Christian Dependance and who perhaps had not fallen into the Frailties natural to every mortal Man but because he employ'd all his Strength and Courage in the Service of the Kingdom which he should have made use of to vanquish his Passions and to keep up at Court the Honour of the Service of God against all wordly Respects Let us Pray then my Lords our Prayers are owing to Him since he has done so much for Us. But let us Hope withal we may so since God has done so much for Him This is the Subject of my Second Part. If the Life of this Great Captain to whom we are now paying our last Mournful Duties were only Illustrious by those Particulars which I have hitherto made use of to make you sensible of his